Death Penalty Quotes

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

I am against the death penalty.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.